Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty

Always look on the bright side of the abyss

Smooth ice is paradise for those who dance with expertise.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Under the magic of the Dionysian, not only does the bond between man and man lock itself in place once more, but also nature itself, no matter how alienated, hostile, or subjugated, rejoices again in her festival of reconciliation with her prodigal son, man. The earth freely offers up her gifts, and the beasts of prey from the rocks and the desert approach in peace. The wagon of Dionysus is covered with flowers and wreaths; under his yolk stride panthers and tigers.

O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!

If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was created by eternal love'--at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise...the inscription 'I too was created by eternal hate'...

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.

The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.

Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself.

I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Here is the great city: here have you nothing to seek and everything to lose.

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good

One pays dearly for any kind of mastery on earth, where perhaps one pays too dearly for everything; one is master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.